Decoding Gender In Science Fiction

Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317971474

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Decoding Gender in Science Fiction by Brian Attebery Pdf

From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin,Brian Attebery
Publisher : R.S. Means Company
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393972410

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The Norton Book of Science Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin,Brian Attebery Pdf

A collection of sixty-seven contemporary American science fiction stories includes contributions by Poul Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, and Philip K. Dick

Author : Jason Haslam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317574248

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Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction by Jason Haslam Pdf

This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories, and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies, from the specifics of race and gender at different points in American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions of such identity categories. SF has already become central to discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human —past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race studies, will find this volume invaluable.

Author : Lisa Yaszek,Sonja Fritzsche,Keren Omry,Wendy Gay Pearson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000826289

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction by Lisa Yaszek,Sonja Fritzsche,Keren Omry,Wendy Gay Pearson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially—but not exclusively—as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world. This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old, hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversations—about the history of gender and genre, theoretical frameworks, subjectivities, medias and transmedialities, and transtemporalities—that are central to discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism, animal studies, cyborg and posthumanist theory, masculinity, critical race studies, Indigenous futurisms, Black girlhood, and gaming. This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender, sexuality, and/or science fiction.

Author : Stephen A. Kent,Susan Raine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216142621

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Scientology in Popular Culture by Stephen A. Kent,Susan Raine Pdf

This multidisciplinary study of Scientology examines the organization and the controversies around it through the lens of popular culture, referencing movies, television, print, and the Internet—an unusual perspective that will engage a wide range of readers and researchers. For more than 60 years, Scientology has claimed alternative religious status with a significant number of followers, despite its portrayals in popular culture domains as being bizarre. What are the reasons for the vital connections between Scientology and popular culture that help to maintain or challenge it as an influential belief system? This book is the first academic treatment of Scientology that examines the movement in a popular-culture context from the perspective of several Western countries. It documents how the attention paid to Scientology by high-profile celebrities and its mention in movies, television, and print as well as on the Internet results in millions of people being aware of the organization—to the religious organization's benefit and detriment. The book leads with a background on Scientology and a discussion of science fiction concepts, pulps, and movies. The next section examines Scientology's ongoing relationship with the Hollywood elite, including the group's use of celebrities in its drug rehabilitation program, and explores movies and television shows that contain Scientology themes or comedic references. Readers will learn about how the Internet and the mainstream media of the United States as well as of Australia, Germany, and the UK have regarded Scientology. The final section investigates the music and art of Scientology.

Author : A. Sawyer,P. Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230300392

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Teaching Science Fiction by A. Sawyer,P. Wright Pdf

Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

Author : Bridgitte Barclay,Christy Tidwell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498580588

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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction by Bridgitte Barclay,Christy Tidwell Pdf

This book examines the often-complex relationships between issues of gender and the environment in science fiction films and fiction. Its contributors discuss a range of texts: early apocalyptic science fiction, campy midcentury science fiction films, Silver Age superhero comics, and twenty-first-century science fiction films and literature.

Author : Brian Attebery
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199316076

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Stories about Stories by Brian Attebery Pdf

The first comprehensive study of fantasy's uses of myth, this book offers insights into the genre's popularity and cultural importance. Combining history, folklore, and narrative theory, Attebery's study explores familiar and forgotten fantasies and shows how the genre is also an arena for negotiating new relationships with traditional tales.

Author : Sarah Lefanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041014734

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Feminism and Science Fiction by Sarah Lefanu Pdf

Author : Jesse S. Cohn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496850171

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Hot Equations by Jesse S. Cohn Pdf

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political “realism” that continue to suppress the radical imagination. Alluding both to the ongoing climate catastrophe and to Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”—that famous touchstone of “hard science fiction”—Hot Equations reads the crises of our "post-normal" moment via works that increasingly subvert genre containment and spill out into the public sphere. Drawing on archives and contemporary theory, author Jesse S. Cohn argues that these imaginative works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror strike at the very foundations of modernity, calling its basic assumptions into question. They threaten the modern order with a simultaneously terrible and promising anarchy, pointing to ways beyond the present medical, ecological, and political crises of pandemic, climate change, and rising global fascism. Examining books ranging from well-known titles like The Hunger Games and The Caves of Steel to newer works such as Under the Pendulum Sun and The Stone Sky, Cohn investigates the ways in which science fiction, fantasy, and horror address contemporary politics, social issues, and more. The “cold equations” that established normal life in the modern world may be in shambles, Cohn suggests, but a New Black Fantastic makes it possible for the radical imagination to glimpse viable possibilities on the other side of crisis.

Author : Bonnie Noonan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476622101

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Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964–1979 by Bonnie Noonan Pdf

The 1950s era of science fiction film effectively ended when space flight became a reality with the first manned orbit of Earth in 1962. As the genre’s wildly speculative depictions of science and technology gave way to more reality-based representations, relations between male and female characters reflected the changing political and social climates of the era. Drawing on critical analyses, film reviews and cultural commentaries, this book examines the development of science fiction film and its representations of gender, from the groundbreaking films of 1968—including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella and Planet of the Apes—through its often overlooked “Middle Period,” which includes such films as Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), The Stepford Wives (1975) and A Boy and His Dog (1975). The author examines intersections of gender and race in The Omega Man (1971) and Frogs (1972), gender and dystopia in Soylent Green (1973) and Logan’s Run (1976), and gender and computers in Demon Seed (1977). The big-budget films of the late 1970s—Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Star Wars—are also discussed.

Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000329704

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The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction by Emily Cox-Palmer-White Pdf

Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.

Author : Brian Attebery,Veronica Hollinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819573681

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Parabolas of Science Fiction by Brian Attebery,Veronica Hollinger Pdf

As a geometric term, parabola suggests a narrative trajectory or story arc. In science fiction, parabolas take us from the known to the unknown. More concrete than themes, more complex than motifs, parabolas are combinations of meaningful setting, character, and action that lend themselves to endless redefinition and jazzlike improvisation. The fourteen original essays in this collection explore how the field of science fiction has developed as a complex of repetitions, influences, arguments, and broad conversations. This particular feature of the genre has been the source of much critical commentary, most notably through growing interest in the “sf megatext,” a continually expanding archive of shared images, situations, plots, characters, settings, and themes found in science fiction across media. Contributors include Jane Donawerth, Terry Dowling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Pawel Frelik, David M. Higgins, Amy J. Ransom, John Rieder, Nicholas Ruddick, Graham Sleight, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek.

Author : Francesca T Barbini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1911143247

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Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction by Francesca T Barbini Pdf

"Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction" is the Call for Papers 2016 of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing. The papers explore this theme asking the important question: do we have a problem?

Author : Debbie Notkin,The Secret Feminist Cabal
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 9780557001965

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Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy by Debbie Notkin,The Secret Feminist Cabal Pdf

Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the tea party when the saucers went off into space? Here's your chance to find out! What would it be like to go to a club where you could buy an injection of sexiness? To grow up in a world where you didn't know what gender you would be until puberty -- and the discovery could be painful? To find yourself and your secret pitted against the entire United States government? The James Tiptree, Jr. Award has been recognizing science fiction and fantasy novels and stories that explore and expand gender since 1992. Although the award itself is given to one or two works of fiction a year, each jury also produces an "honor list" of notable works that were considered for the award. This anthology contains almost all of the short fiction that either won or was honored in the first five years of the award.